I've just had a long Eureka moment, lasting for several days. It's rather embarrassing actually because I've found out something I should've known ages ago.
I've been subbing for about two years and I've been moderately successful, using Duotrope to find ezines to sub to, largely American ones, which take stories featuring very American subject-matter. I know several British writers who write very specifically for this market, even using Webster spellings. No one is a bigger fan of Duotrope than I am, but it does tend to represent what American writers want to write - scifi, fantasy, zombies, vampires.
At the same time... well, over the last few months... I've become a bit of a writing mag junkie ('Writers Forum', 'Mslexia', 'Writers Monthly', 'Leaf Books' although I was just reading the articles - until the last few days. Dear Reader (if there is one), I have come to love the classifieds at the end, you know, the ones where they list all the competitions. They're all British and most of them are open genre, so I've been whacking my British-based mainstream stories in there. It may be that they too favour scifi and fantasy etc and I'm going to be terribly disappointed, but they're not saying so.
Good luck with the competitions.
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